Economics Resources
American Stock Exchange--The
American Stock Exchange provides visibility for over 700 companies.
Serving financial markets worldwide, the AMEX offers efficiency and
fairness to investors via state-of-the-art trading technology and stock
specialists. Bank Rate--A
one-stop site for the best rates available (credit card, mortgage,
interest, loan rates, etc). Much more consumer information. Updated
daily!!
Currency Converter--Here is a useful site for converting currency.
Economic Research Service: U.S. State Facts Sheets--This site provides state fact sheets with information on population,
employment, income, and farm financial indicators for each state in
the United States.
Hoover's Handbook of Business--The
Web's most comprehensive source of company home pages, also includes
company capsules, investment information and business news. Inflation Conversion--Many
very neat statistics that can be used for all types of things in the
classroom (Did you know that in current dollars, it cost 24 cents to go
to the movies in 1935?)
The Mint--Provides
a variety of lessons for middle and high school students on the
practical aspects of economics (budgeting, credit cards, inflation,
taxes, etc).
NCS Publicly Traded Companies--The
world leader in providing convenient, free access to all the important
investment information on the Internet, including stock exchange
information, company lists and coproration web sites.
Online Elementary Economics Lessons--Link to 31 economics lessons that use children's literature to teach
concepts such as: goods, services, producers, consumers, capital, and
human resources.
World of Money--Listing of Internet resources related to money and economics.
WPL Business Resources--Waterloo
Public Library's monster list of business resources including
companies, investing, magazines, financial calculators, advice, etc.
Updated by Jacob Werner 11-24-08
East Buchanan Community School Tech Team
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